Hehe my BDay is July 31, and my Dad got my a laptop for my gift! I'm 16 now, btw. Acer 3680 Processor: Intel M-350 1.4 ghz << Need a real processor RAM: 512 mb << Gotta get more RAM, like 1.5 gigs more xD Screen: 14.5" widescreen Integrated video chipset, at 128 mb RAM Integrated wireless Bluetooth and 801.11b/g. Came with Vista Home Basic, reformated that and installed XP Home /w SP2, then installed: Dreamweaver 8 Photoshop CS2 C++ Studio Express << The only Studio I use LOL, gonna learn VB later to use DesktopX C# Studio Express Visual Basic Studio Express SmartFTP World of Warcraft << Duh Live OneCare Donno what else I installed. Lol.
more ram? I had: Photoshop CS2 XNA J# C++ Studio Express C# Studio Express Visual Basic Studio Express And It was a pain when I had more then three open at the same time with 512
Hey it was my first laptop (That's not 10 years old and doesn't work). One I know I gotta get more RAM and an AMD processor, Intels gay, but It's my first so I'm not dissing it.
nice man my first laptop was a gateway then i had to buy a new one cuz of my motherboard crashed <_< then I got alien ware
your CPU is fine. on the laptop side fo thigns AMD is a bit weak and with intel's new CPUs they dominate the desktop segment too. AMD is strongest in the server segment - that means not where it matters to us. Merged Post: can too... Socket 7 and super socket 7 were cross compatible... back in 1996 or something like that. but here and today the boards are entirely incompatible.
Hehe so everyone in Future Shop thought XP wouldn't work with the laptop, and that I couldn't use PCExpress on an AGP 8x slot ;P I managed . I'm used to AMD, never going to change, and the fact Intel crashes too many times. Infact, my laptop gave my 2 BSoD because of the processor I'm not going overclocking on this one xD.
I'm going to be blunt- it's more likely the mainboard or the RAM than the processor. Especially with the lower binned CPUs which run (relatively) slow. The Pentium/Celeron M arch can run at 3GHz relatively easily, at 1.4 Ghz the chips are about as stable as they get. Same thing with AMDs laptop chips, they run slow and they have a lot of headroom. and FYI limiting yourself to one company is a sure fire way to get ripped off 90% of the time. conversely AMD is bleeding a half a billion dollars a year so any added revenue they get is good for the market since we don't want them going down... but yeh, getting an AMD based chip would basically require a completely new system as the current platforms are radically different in terms of I/O properties. and no I'm not really that much of an intel fanboy, check my posts from 1.5-2 years ago when AMD had a solid lead on the market and the undisputed price/performance crown and you'll see me telling 95% of people to go with athlons. Things have changed since then though. Intel switched from netburst(high Ghz design low perforomance per Ghz) to core(somewhat high GHz, very very high performance/GHz) here and today, Core 2, and Pentium M scale higher than AMDs chips clock speed wise and are of comparable/better performance/clock(I'd say that Pentium Ms are within 1-3% of an athlon clock for clock and c2ds are about 15-30% faster) going from a AMD opteron 165 @2.6Ghz(opterons are AMDs top chips which they use for servers) to a core 2 duo @ 3.2Ghz has netted me in excess of a 50% performance increase. and right now I'm typing this on my backup computer which has an AMD athlon 64 3000+ again compare the product an not the company, there are a lot fo fanboys out there and while some of them might seem knowledgeable and might even be ebtter informed than the general public, most tend to be completely one sided and when the market changes and company A no longer has better products than company B they refute the fact and try to convert everyone to their beliefs. I was one of those a while back and well... let's just say I did a better job of advertising AMD than their non-existent marketing department. Also my next system willl likely have an AMD K10 CPU(assuming a 30-50% performance/clock gain over K8 and similar clock speed scaling to K8) and I'm hoping to get an athlon based laptop(better system energy usage under low loads, I use laptops for work not games and as such my CPU usage would hardly ever exceed 20% so energy frugality and battery life is my primary concern) /rant
